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by pgeorgi 7y ago
The PSP is responsible for memory training and re-enabling after wake-up. So neutralizing might work (given that signatures can be tricked), but you have to be very careful to keep a sizable set of modules alive.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> I'm just reporting what the German statistical office reports ... which is meaningless when you compare it to the official US statistics (as you did) because they count things differently. The harmonization helps make the numbers
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
https://data.oecd.org/chart/5A9X is the harmonized unemployment rate for Germany and the USA, which they define as: "Harmonised unemployment rates define the unemployed as people of working age who are without wor
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
and nothing of value was lost
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
You don't need federated systems for an "extra-walled-in garden". Install some forum software (phpbb, discourse, ...), disable self-registration, done.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Google has various programs under which employees can release code without having to care too much about the broad copyright assumptions in their contracts. The two most popular are https://opensource.google.com/docs/re
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> federated social networks, are the wrong direction > walled gardens only worsen polarization So walled gardens worsen polarization but federated social networks (that provide a way out of walled gardens) are the wrong direction?
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
>> Servers however do filtering all the time already > Mastodon server instances already have blocked lists of "banned" instances. well, yes.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> Now I wonder if mastodon client app developers will start filtering the allowed servers users can put in... Any action of that kind would only fuel the alt-right persecution complex. Servers however do filtering all the time already, a
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> Even the linux kernel has a CLA, they just call it by another name (Developer Certificate of Origin) Who is the single beneficiary of special rights granted under the DCO? CLAs provide a single party with rights nobody else has.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> an independent investigator It's possible for public experts to voice their opinion in an brief amici curiae. They don't need to be unbiased, but they're supposed to be independent from the parties. There are some stats
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
When undergoing abdominal radiation treatment, patients are asked to stop breathing to keep organs at their place (and not radiate healthy tissue), but apparently that still isn't good enough: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
I wouldn't describe in such harsh words (although maybe that helps bring the point across?), but overall I agree. Several of the items look like they could be improved completely isolated from the rest (eg. the email issue). Moving fro
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
It's not an economic tool but one of diplomacy (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_diplomacy ), and the action now is likely more of a signal to the Chinese people than to the American.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Back then they had much less variation in inventory and very limited price groups: all products fit into the ~10 tiers they had, ranging from 0.19 to 3.99 or so. The increased variation in inventory and the scanners came at about the same t
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> I have to ask... 10?! > How many soccer games do you attend in a given week? One: souprock's kids + one friend vs. some other team.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Do you have to check mushrooms and boar for radioactivity due to coal like you have for Tchernobyl? ( https://www.bfs.de/DE/themen/ion/umwelt/lebensmittel/pilze-w... )
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
We have such "lego block" website builders in Germany since $forever, and while with some experience you can easily tell which builder (and therefore hoster) any restaurant or hairdresser used for their site, it's good enough
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> In Germany it could land you in prison. Proclaiming yourself a Nazi shouldn't. Expect to be watched closely by intelligence services though (unless you're a cop, very different rules apply then). Promoting the ideology may la
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> IMO the corporate board of directors will coast on the situation for as long as possible and only then will we see some changes, don't you agree? There are a few cases already with fines around 2.8% of revenue, and those fines don
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> from outside, there’s no way to prove that a particular ad was served to you because of your data instead of another factor they use as input for the algorithm Create an account, use it to excessively look for tea pots until you predom
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
Not changing policy means escalating fines (those 4% of global revenue maximum are nothing to sneeze at, and so far compliance was the cheaper route) but also, at some point, the inability to operate in the EU. Even if a company only does t
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> involving non-EU consumers GDPR covers any interaction of people or organizations in the EU. So non-EU consumers are covered once they're visiting the EU (citizen of a member state or not), and potentially (untested, not spelled o
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
It still reports your movements to your cell provider. Get rid of cell phones if you're worried about privacy.
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> And i don't believe for a second the data they're allowing you to "autodelete" genuinely gets deleted. It just gets removed from your view. While "deleted" might take a while (eventual consistency FTW), an
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by pgeorgi 7y ago
> just HTML and CSS, yes, @media queries for example that trivially let the site fingerprint you again.
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
Part of the peace movement is also opposed to nuclear power because the waste products are suitable for building nukes, with claims that certain aspects of the nuclear power industry mainly exist for that reason. Incidentally the US raises
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> And human beings have thousands of years of being predominantly among other human beings. When working remote there's still interaction with other people (just through different channels). And then there's that time outside w
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> what impact it has on social development, interpersonal skills, empathy, sympathy etc. Why is work supposed to provide for that? It's not kindergarden where, in addition to "activities" (ie. job assignments), you're
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by pgeorgi 8y ago
> But it seems the same could be said about humans. “They have a long time to breed.. eh whatever”... Pretty much what happens in humans when there's no contraception and therefore a new kid every ~year and less food than needed to

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